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Peach
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 Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:36 pm Post subject: Unable to get international keys working on mac alu keyboard |
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hi all,
I've been struggling a bit, but didn't really care too much about it because, you know, english.
But I've come across a friend of mine who's got the same problem on Gentoo, and asked me for help.. and in turn I'm asking here to see if anyone knows a solution for this.
First of all, UK international was working fine without any problems, until one day it suddenly decided to stop working after an upgrade.
I'm using XFCE and the keyboard is a classic USB Mac Alu UK
(this one: http://blog.ilovemac.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Wired-Keyboard-Aluminium_6.jpeg)
[edit] The correct keyboard layout is the following:
http://images.esellerpro.com/2477/I/640/424/MB110B-1.jpg
system-wide the configuration for the keyboard is set to be:
| Code: | # cat /etc/conf.d/keymaps | grep ^[^#]
keymap="uk"
windowkeys="YES"
extended_keymaps=""
dumpkeys_charset=""
fix_euro="NO"
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and within XFCE4 it's set to be English (UK, Macintosh International) with model set to Apple Aluminum Keyboard (ISO)
Even with this, combos e.g. AltGR+'+e is not outputting é, nor any other combination for any other international character, works.
Any idea what's wrong?
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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Well, in X /etc/conf.d/keymaps doesn't really matter.
Not sure what your desktop applet of choice actually does, so check:
- 'setxkbmap -print'
- xserver log for what rules are getting applied to the keyboard |
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Peach
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:10 am Post subject: |
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Consider that I've never configured the keyboard under X, and always let XFCE take care of it.
| VoidMage wrote: | Not sure what your desktop applet of choice actually does, so check:
- 'setxkbmap -print'
- xserver log for what rules are getting applied to the keyboard |
| Code: | $ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
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the Xorg.0.log shows more or less the same:
| Code: | [2679122.777] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 10)
[2679122.777] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[2679122.777] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[2679122.777] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[2679122.777] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard (/dev/input/event4)
[2679122.777] (**) Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[2679122.777] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard'
[2679122.777] (**) Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard: always reports core events
[2679122.777] (**) evdev: Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
[2679122.777] (--) evdev: Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard: Vendor 0x5ac Product 0x250
[2679122.777] (--) evdev: Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard: Found keys
[2679122.777] (II) evdev: Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
[2679122.777] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3.2/1-1.3.2:1.1/input/input4/event4"
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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I don't use a Mac, but that keyboard layout you linked to is not a British Apple keyboard layout (see Differences between British and US Apple Keyboards). It looks to me to be a US Apple keyboard layout.
Do you have xfce4-xkb-plugin installed, and do you normally select the keyboard layout using Keyboard Layouts in Xfce? Rather than selecting the keyboard layout via the GUI you could try doing it directly in xorg.conf if your keyboard device is already specified in that file, or in a separate file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf if your keyboard device is not already specified in xorg.conf [1]. You may already have a file *-keyboard.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ which you could edit accordingly.
All the possible XkbModels, XkbLayouts, XkbVariants and XkbOptions are listed in the text file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst on your machine. I see in that file on my main laptop running Gentoo that the possible Apple entries for XkbModels are:
| Code: | apple Apple
apple_laptop Apple Laptop
applealu_ansi Apple Aluminium Keyboard (ANSI)
applealu_iso Apple Aluminium Keyboard (ISO)
applealu_jis Apple Aluminium Keyboard (JIS) |
So you could try a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf along the following lines:
| Code: | Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "applealu_iso" # Try "applealu_ansi" as well.
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection |
You'll need to play around with the options. On some of my machines I want to be able to switch keyboard layouts between British English, US English, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish, so I have a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf that looks like the following:
| Code: | Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb,us,br,es"
Option "XkbVariant" ""
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection |
I have specified the XkbOptions option to be "grp:alt_shift_toggle" so that I can use Alt+Shift to toggle between the keyboard layouts. The key combination options for toggling are also listed in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst.
Another thing to try: As the keyboard layout you linked to appears to be a US layout, you could try something like the following:
| Code: | Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "intl" # Or maybe try "alt-intl".
EndSection |
The different keyboard variants are also listed in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst.
If you prefer, instead of using an X.Org configuration file, it is possible to assign keyboard layouts, variants and options via the command line by using the setkbmap command. For example:
| Code: | | setxkbmap -layout us -variant intl |
If you wanted to use a Compose Key then the command would become for example:
| Code: | | setxkbmap -layout us -variant intl -option compose:lwin |
The allowable alternatives to 'lwin' (Left Windows key) are also listed in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst.
[1] Selecting different keyboard layouts in Xfce.
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Peach
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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After talking in the #xfce channel I found out the reason it's not working anymore on XFCE is due to a problem that has now been fixed on 4.10
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10226
I'll try to implement the solution given by Fitzcarraldo and report back.
Thanks 
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| Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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So I´ve been playing a bit with it, found out I´ve linked the wrong image for the keyboard layout:
http://images.esellerpro.com/2477/I/640/424/MB110B-1.jpg
Now I´ve got the internationalisation keys working using the keyboard layout switcher of XFCE, but some keys are just awkward, as the double quotes gives me this symbol: ¨ and the §/± key is inverted with ~/` key. 
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